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— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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— Traci Brimhall, Dear Eros

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Fydoror Dostoevsky // Clarice Lispector

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Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red

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Columbia University students at the Gaza solidarity encampment reading Wisam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals and Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine (ph. Ian Bartlett).

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People say “phase” like impermanence means insignificance. Show me a permanent state of the self.

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people refuse to see the violence it takes to maintain the status quo as such and instead fear the hypothetical violence it will take to destroy it. they see the current order of things as a state of stasis and inaction, instead of as a violent order upheld by constant action, which can be undone by action

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Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) [ID'd]

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More than 60% of the global population that are classified as the Phase 5 famine/catastrophe level of food insecurity and starvation are in the Gaza Strip right now, and that percentage is projected to increase to 95% by Februrary

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“Anger is an acceptable form of grief. You don't have to make your emotions palatable to those who are unmoved. Rage isn't the curse, apathy is.

In the absence of relief, our collective conscience can atrophy. You begin to believe this is the way it has to be. Resist. Dehumanization of the suffering is by design, but it is not an inevitable one.”

—Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies, January 2024

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Anaïs Nin, from The Voice

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Sharif S. Elmusa, from "A Day in the Life of Nablus", Flawed Landscape: Poems 1987-2008 [ID'd]

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my wings? two rotting petals

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from The Most Foreign Country; “I am…”